GUIDE TO GETTING CFW ON PS3 VERSION 3.55​

Guide objectives :

- Install Custom Firmware 3.55

- Connect to PSN (optional step)

- Install and launch Homebrews

- Transfer files between Computer/PS3

- Play games with managers
​

Guide Contents & Index:

GUIDE 1: INSTALLING CFW:

- Pre-requisites

- Procedures

- PC Stuff

- PS3 Stuff


GUIDE 2: CONNECTING TO PSN

- Pre-requisites

- Procedure
​

GUIDE 1: INSTALLING CFW AND BACKUP MANAGER​

- PRE-REQUISITES -​

0) A FAT32 formatted USB drive

Most low-capacity USB drives are already FAT32 formatted. If your's isn't, right click on the drive letter of your usb(eg: E:\) and click on Format. Choose FAT32 and Quick Format it.

1) OFW 3.55(if you don't already have it)

Download (Use the mediafire link.)

MD5 CHECKSUM: ca595ad9f3af8f1491d9c9b6921a8c61


INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Make a new folder on the root of a usb drive and call it PS3. Make another folder inside it called UPDATE. Put the 3.55 update in here and make sure that it's named, 'PS3UPDAT.PUP'. Now put the usb drive into the PS3 and go to Settings -> System Update and choose Update via Storage Media and press 'X'.

2) CFWM 1.5 Small Version [32MB]

Download

Used for obtaining Custom Firmwares.

3) MultiMAN:

BASE

This is currently the best backup manager.

- PROCEDURE -​

- PC STUFF -​

STEP 0: CREATING A CUSTOM FIRMWARE

Automatic Patching:​

1) Create a new folder on your desktop and call it 'CFWM'. If you downloaded OFW 3.55 earlier, skip step 3 and create a new folder inside this folder called 'Original_3.55_FW'. Copy the PS3UPDAT.PUP to this folder.

2) Extract the .exe from inside the CFWM archive to this folder.

3) Now, open the .exe and choose 'Download 3.55 OFW'.

4) After it has finished, choose any CFW from the 3.55 section and click on Create Custom Firmware 3.55.

NOTE: I recommend Kmeaw's 3.55 CFW.

Manual patching:(by Cyan)​

1) Download CFWM v1.5 Full version (+batch by Cyan) [152MB]. and create a new folder on your desktop and call it 'CFWM'. Now, extract everything from that archive to this folder.

2) Place the downloaded OFW 3.55 in 'Original_3.55_FW' folder (or OFW 3.41 in 'Original_3.41_FW' folder).

3) Double click on the Batch file corresponding to the cfw you want to create (ex. Kmeaw_3.55.bat) and follow the instructions. Verify that both MD5 hashes are matching at the end of the process.

4) The patched cfw is now available in newly created folder named after the cfw you chose.

STEP 1: TRANSFERRING EVERYTHING TO THE USB DRIVE

Okay, now lets start transferring the CFW and the Backup Manager to the USB drive.

1) On the root of your USB drive, create a new folder called 'PS3'. Now inside 'PS3' create another folder called 'UPDATE'.

2) Go to the 'CFWM' folder and now go to the folder of your chosen CFW.

3) Find the PS3UPDAT.PUP file and copy it to the 'UPDATE' folder which we created.

4) Open the multiMAN archive.

5) Extract multiMAN WT.pkg, USB.CFG and options_default.ini to root of your USB drive.

- PS3 STUFF -​

STEP 1: INSTALLING KMEAW CFW

1) In the XMB, go to Settings -> System Update.

2) Now select Update Via Storage Media.

3) A message will pop-up.

4) Press 'X'.

5) It should install successfully. If you get any errors, try installing it using Recovery Mode.

STEP 2: INSTALLING MULTIMAN BACKUP MANAGER

1) In the XMB go to Game -> Install Package Files.

2) Select MultiMAN and install it.

3) If you want to play games with Kmeaw cfw, you need to install this using the 'Install Package Files' option in the Game section of the XMB.

STEP 3: ENABLING NTFS ON MULTIMAN (OPTIONAL)

[title: ENABLING NTFS ON MULTIMAN]

1) Plug your external hdd into your PC and download this.

2) Install usbview and open it.

3) Grab the vendor id and the product id.

4) Now create a new notepad file and put this in 0xVNID:0xPRID:V where VNID is the vendor id and PRID is the product id and V is the number of volumes.

5) Now save it as USB.CFG and copy it over to the root of your USB Drive. If it asks you to replace it, do so.

6) Now download Awesome File Manager and install it on your PS3.

7) Run it and browse to /dev_hdd0/game/BLES80608/USRDIR

8) On the other side you should find a directory that has "USB" in it, the inside directory should have your "USB" file.

9) Highlight it and press O to copy it into MultiMAN USRDIR.

10) Now go back to multiMAN and press Start + /\.

11) The NTFS driver should be activated now.

NOTE: Currently you can only copy from an external NTFS hdd to your internal hdd. Nothing more, nothing less.

-END OF GUIDE 1-​

GUIDE 2: CONNECTING TO PSN​

Spoiler: GUIDE 2: CONNECTING TO PSN. THIS DOES NOT WORK CURRENTLY AS THIS METHOD HAS BEEN BLOCKED BY SONY

THIS DOES NOT WORK AS OF 3/18/2011. FOR MORE INFO, GO HERE.

- PRE-REQUISITES -​

0) A FAT32 formatted USB drive

Most low-capacity USB drives are already FAT32 formatted. If your's isn't, right click on the drive letter of your usb(eg: E:\) and click on Format. Choose FAT32 and Quick Format it.

1) TEAM REBUG'S 3.60 SPOOFER

Visit Team Rebug website to download a list of URLs

Select a link from the provided list in the text file to download the installer.

- PROCEDURE -​

INSTALLING TEAM REBUG'S 3.60 SPOOFER​

1) Extract 3.60_Version_Spoofer.pkg from the archive you downloaded to the root of your USB drive.

2) Plug it in to your PS3

3) In the XMB go to Game -> Install Package Files.

4) Select 3.60 Version Spoofer

5) Once loaded Press the 'X' button to install. It will take about 15-45 seconds.

6) When it prompts for a reboot, do so.

STEP 2: INSTALLING FUCK PSN (OPTIONAL. USE THIS FOR SPOOFING YOUR CONSOLE ID).

1) Download dev_blind.pkg, fuckPsn-v0.6.exe and CA27.cer from here. Copy dev_pkg and openps3ftp.pkg from the OpenPs3Ftp archive to the root of your USB Drive.

2) On your desktop, create a new folder. Let's call it Fuck PSN.

3) Copy CA27.cer and the fuckPsn-v0.6.exe file to this folder.

4) Now download an FTP server. I personally use FileZilla.

5) Install it.

6) Now plug-in your USB Drive into your PS3.

7) In the XMB, go to Install Package Files and install dev_blind and OpenPS3FTP.

8) Go to Game and launch dev_blind to mount the flash as writable

9) Now on your PS3 run OpenPS3Ftp and on your PC run Filezilla or whichever FTP server you use.

10) Go to FileZilla and enter root as the username and openbox as the password.

11) Now using FileZilla go to /dev_blind/data /cert

12) Rename CA27.cer to CA27.cer.bak

13) Now copy over the CA27.cer from the FuckPSN directory that we created earlier to /dev_blind/data/cert

14) Now change your PS3's primary and secondary dns servers to your PS3's IP. If you don't know how to change the DNS servers look here.

15) After you're done changing the DNS servers, reboot your PS3 and launch FuckPSN.exe from the folder we created earlier.

16) You can now connect to PSN.

-END OF GUIDES-​

F.A.Q.(by Cyan)​

Main questions

Q. Can I use burnt Bluray discs to play games?
A. No. Only Internal and External HDD is working with backup managers.

Q. I updated past 3.55, is there any way to get the 3.55 custom firmware from there?
A. No. There's no way to downgrade from 3.56+ firmware yet using a software method. Though, there is a way to downgrade some FAT PS3 involving Infectus modchip.

Q. I'm on 3.50 or bellow. Do I need to install the Official Firmware 3.55 first?
A. Even if installing a cfw3.55 over an old fw should work, it's recommended that you update your PS3 to the same Official Firmware as the cfw you want to install first to avoid bricking your console.

Q. I'm on 3.41 or bellow and don't want to update to 3.55, do I really need to install 3.55 to use a cfw?
A. No, you can install Hermes cfw 3.41 (please update to ofw 3.41v2 first) and follow the guide the same way. Just don't install the Version Spoofer from Team Rebug (It only works on 3.55).

Q. I'm already using a cfw but I want to change for Kmeaw 3.55
A. First re-install the ofw 3.55 over your current one, then follow the guide again.

Q. How big should be my USB drive just to install it, not to play back ups?
A. Around 200mb.

Q. Where can I find all previous Official Firmware and their MD5 hash ?
A. Sony removed previous firmwares from their servers when the first jailbreak method appeared. You can still find remaining links and all the informations here.

CFWM

Q. The program doesn't start.
A. You need .Net framework 4.0.

Q. Where can I find .net4.0 ?
A. Here

Q. I don't want to install .Net4.0. How can I still patch the firmware?
A. You can use bspatch program to patch the firmware manually. Follow the manual patching method in the Guide.

PSN

Q. Can Sony ban my PSN account?
A. Yes, as Sony can't ban your Console ID, they can ban your account. But you can always create a new account, while unbanning the PS3 itself will be harder.

Q. Can I play online with all games?
A. You can't play online anymore. You need the 3.62+ official firmware to connect to PSN.

Q. FuckPSN is not working, what can I do?
A. You need .net Framework 3.5, and if you are using a firewall you need to open these ports : 53 UDP, 80 TCP and 443 TCP. You may need to close Skype.

Multiman :

Q. When I press start+triangle to enable NTFS it freezes
A. Your NTFS partition needs to be primary and active.

 

[mechadylan]

Modern Warfare 1/2 runs on multiMAN?!?! Source? Proof?

 

[Cyan]

Modern Warfare is a "Black screen game" so it need select+X to launch it.

To launch Black Screen games, you need to put the game on an External FAT32 HDD, in usb:/GAMEZ or usb:/GAMES folder.

Then load multiman 1.15.0 or greater
Highlight the game
Keep Select button pressed and press X to launch the game.

The only problem is that Black screen games can only be launched if they are stored on External HDD.
Select+X on internal is doing another thing (forcing autoboot), so it won't work if the game has a 4GB+ file.

I played Eternal Sonata that way and confirm it's working fine.
Do anyone have a full "Black screen game" list ?


I found this info for Modern Warfare on psgroove.com

The select+x method with MultiMan ONLY WORKS FROM EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES. The method bypasses the payloads which happen to take up the memory allocations that these black screen games need access to. It basically direct boots it off the external drive, using a dynamic on-the-fly file redirection. Pretty ingenious design from what I've read about it. I don't know why no one else mentioned that, and I'm only here instead of the general and jailbreak sections cause I'm really bored today, so it's a fluke. That game is only confirmed to be working on MultiMan, only when select+x booted, and only from external.

 

[Originality]

I should add, all managers can read from USB:\GAMES. There's no difference in using GAMES or GAMEZ.

I use FAT32 and have yet to find a game that doesn't work (the split games I just copy to the internal).

EDIT: There is a method to play games with split files on external FAT32 drives, but I've never been bothered to try it.

 

[squall670]

Ok so I followed the guide exactly, I got the CFW on, I got all the packages installed, but when trying to do the FTP part for the cert I have no dev_blind folder on my system. So I'm not sure if maybe I missed a step or something.

Also when FTPing backups and stuff to my game, where exactly do I put it?

::EDIT:: Nvm I got the folder now, didn't type it right or something I guess. Great guide though btw man. Saved me some money buying a dongle for 3.41

And the spoofing thing confused me a little. I followed every step but pointing the DNS to my own systems IP caused me to not be able to get a connection to anything. So not sure if I screwed that up or not. I just want PSN for demo's for games.

Oh and can I use Netflix without worry or no? And if you do get banned what happens? Just can't use the internet anymore?

 

[Crono2000]

Well if "most" work is there at least a list of the black screen games somewhere?

 

[mechadylan]

Modern Warfare is a "Black screen game" so it need select+X to launch it.

To launch Black Screen games, you need to put the game on an External FAT32 HDD, in usb:/GAMEZ or usb:/GAMES folder.

Then load multiman 1.15.0 or greater
Highlight the game
Keep Select button pressed and press X to launch the game.

The only problem is that Black screen games can only be launched if they are stored on External HDD.
Select+X on internal is doing another thing (forcing autoboot), so it won't work if the game has a 4GB+ file.

I played Eternal Sonata that way and confirm it's working fine.
Do anyone have a full "Black screen game" list ?


I found this info for Modern Warfare on psgroove.com

The select+x method with MultiMan ONLY WORKS FROM EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES. The method bypasses the payloads which happen to take up the memory allocations that these black screen games need access to. It basically direct boots it off the external drive, using a dynamic on-the-fly file redirection. Pretty ingenious design from what I've read about it. I don't know why no one else mentioned that, and I'm only here instead of the general and jailbreak sections cause I'm really bored today, so it's a fluke. That game is only confirmed to be working on MultiMan, only when select+x booted, and only from external.

Cool. I didn't know that. There's a "settings per game" feature on Rogero for black screen games as well; and it too only works for external hdds. I'm gonna go try the select+x method on multiMAN right now. Thanks.

 

[Cyan]

You need to launch the "dev_blind" program first to mount the flash as writable named "dev_blind".

Depending the FTP Server you are using, the listed root folders are hard written in the sources (ex. Blackb0x ftp won't list the dev_blind).
If that's the case, just edit the path in your FTP client manually to add /dev_blind/

And the spoofing thing confused me a little. I followed every step but pointing the DNS to my own systems IP caused me to not be able to get a connection to anything. So not sure if I screwed that up or not. I just want PSN for demo's for games.

Humm, You need some settings on your Computer.
- First, if you are using ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) to allow other computers to connect to internet through your computer, you need to disable it.
- Close all your software using HTTP ports 80 and 443 (apache, wamp, php servers, etc.)
- If you have a firewall open the ports : 53 UDP, 80 TCP, 443 TCP
- If you have Skype, exit the program (there's a port 80 inside)

 

[squall670]

Well I have a wireless router but that's it really, so not sre if that's considered ICS or not. Never been good with technical stuff. Is there a way to check whats using what ports or no? I've always been bad when it comes to stuff like this on pcs.

 

[Originality]

ICS is used on computers to share between multiple networks. Typically this just means either sharing internet from WiFi to devices connected via ethernet, or visa versa.

Typically if you've never set up ICS before, it's not set up. EDIT: I should also mention that it can only be set up in Windows - it has nothing to do with routers.

 

[squall670]

I don't think it's set up then. I have a wireless router but I don't remember ever doing ICS but I could be wrong. I'll mess with it when I get home going home from work right now.

 

[Zorua]

Updated with the latest MultiMAN.

 

[C175R]

is there any guide on how to use multiman?
also what am i suppose to do in this step:
3) If you want to play games with Kmeaw cfw, you need to run this each time before you start MultiMAN.
one says installed 1 playloads of 8 patches or something like that and doesnt do anything.
the middle one sends me back to the main screen and the third one is the same as the first one.
help?

PS. nevermind
i think i figure it out
but is there any way to play games without disc in the disk drive?
my disc drive is borken and it doesnt read disks...

 

[Zorua]

is there any guide on how to use multiman?
also what am i suppose to do in this step:
3) If you want to play games with Kmeaw cfw, you need to run this each time before you start MultiMAN.
one says installed 1 playloads of 8 patches or something like that and doesnt do anything.
the middle one sends me back to the main screen and the third one is the same as the first one.
help?

What help do you need in running multiman?
As for your second question, I don't really get it. You need to download lv2_9.pkg from here and then you need to run it each time before you run multiMAN.

EDIT: Yeah, multiMAN can run most games without a disc in the drive.

 

[C175R]

is there any guide on how to use multiman?
also what am i suppose to do in this step:
3) If you want to play games with Kmeaw cfw, you need to run this each time before you start MultiMAN.
one says installed 1 playloads of 8 patches or something like that and doesnt do anything.
the middle one sends me back to the main screen and the third one is the same as the first one.
help?

What help do you need in running multiman?
As for your second question, I don't really get it. You need to download lv2_9.pkg from here and then you need to run it each time before you run multiMAN.

yea i think i figure it out.
but now its askin me to insert an original disc in the drive and my disc drive is broken. what can i do?

edit: well i just tried marvel vs campom 3 and its not letting me play

 

[Zorua]

is there any guide on how to use multiman?
also what am i suppose to do in this step:
3) If you want to play games with Kmeaw cfw, you need to run this each time before you start MultiMAN.
one says installed 1 playloads of 8 patches or something like that and doesnt do anything.
the middle one sends me back to the main screen and the third one is the same as the first one.
help?

What help do you need in running multiman?
As for your second question, I don't really get it. You need to download lv2_9.pkg from here and then you need to run it each time before you run multiMAN.

yea i think i figure it out.
but now its askin me to insert an original disc in the drive and my disc drive is broken. what can i do?

edit: well i just tried marvel vs campom 3 and its not letting me play

Have you tried Rogero? Also, in MultiMAN try launching the games with select + x.

EDIT: You need to download this. Then, extract the BDEMU-355KM.pkg from the BDEMU archive to your usb and then install this .pkg.

 

[C175R]

is there any guide on how to use multiman?
also what am i suppose to do in this step:
3) If you want to play games with Kmeaw cfw, you need to run this each time before you start MultiMAN.
one says installed 1 playloads of 8 patches or something like that and doesnt do anything.
the middle one sends me back to the main screen and the third one is the same as the first one.
help?

What help do you need in running multiman?
As for your second question, I don't really get it. You need to download lv2_9.pkg from here and then you need to run it each time before you run multiMAN.

yea i think i figure it out.
but now its askin me to insert an original disc in the drive and my disc drive is broken. what can i do?

edit: well i just tried marvel vs campom 3 and its not letting me play

Have you tried Rogero? Also, in MultiMAN try launching the games with select + x.

ok. I just tried it but the game starts for a second and then it sends me back to the main screen..?
yea i did that without even knowing that i had to do it.
i think its the game since other game just worked fine.

 

[Zorua]

is there any guide on how to use multiman?
also what am i suppose to do in this step:
3) If you want to play games with Kmeaw cfw, you need to run this each time before you start MultiMAN.
one says installed 1 playloads of 8 patches or something like that and doesnt do anything.
the middle one sends me back to the main screen and the third one is the same as the first one.
help?

What help do you need in running multiman?
As for your second question, I don't really get it. You need to download lv2_9.pkg from here and then you need to run it each time before you run multiMAN.

yea i think i figure it out.
but now its askin me to insert an original disc in the drive and my disc drive is broken. what can i do?

edit: well i just tried marvel vs campom 3 and its not letting me play

Have you tried Rogero? Also, in MultiMAN try launching the games with select + x.

ok. I just tried it but the game starts for a second and then it sends me back to the main screen..?

Did you also run the lv2 patcher before starting multiMAN?

 

[C175R]

Did you also run the lv2 patcher before starting multiMAN?

yea i did. and did all 3 of them one by one.
but after it goes to the game, it says something like checking system and when it reaches around 5-10%, it kicks me out

 

[Zorua]

Did you also run the lv2 patcher before starting multiMAN?

yea i did. and did all 3 of them one by one.
but after it goes to the game, it says something like checking system and when it reaches around 5-10%, it kicks me out

What do you mean by all 3? You just need to run this one.

 

[C175R]

Did you also run the lv2 patcher before starting multiMAN?

yea i did. and did all 3 of them one by one.
but after it goes to the game, it says something like checking system and when it reaches around 5-10%, it kicks me out

What do you mean by all 3? You just need to run this one.

yea and when I open that on the ps3, theres 3 files in there. and everytime i do one, it sends me back to the main screen